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#Revolutionaries behind the 1908 Hanoi Poison Plot detained at the Hoa Lo Prison by the French colonists in 1941.

13 of them had their heads chopped off instantly and displayed in public. The French later used the photo for an #Indochina #propaganda postcard.

Whilst the second world war was raging across the world, in Vietnam the #VietMinh #Liberation Movement, led by famed revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, was taking birth. #HoChiMinh had one dream. An independent Vietnam free of foreign rule.

The first year after the war had Japan, and then Britain keen to get their hands on Vietnam. But they were soon replaced by Vietnam’s old colonial rulers: the French.

For nine long years, thereafter, from 1946 to 1954 the First Indochina War ripped across the country. Spilling blood, lives, and peace. On one side were the French. More adamant to stay. More aggressive in their rule. They were helped by the US who provided advisers, funding, and weapons from behind the scenes.
Anti-communist Vietnamese loyalists aided the French rulers’ legitimacy. On the other side was Ho Chi Minh and his revolutionaries.

Things eventually came to a head in 1954 with the Geneva Conference and creation of the 17th Parallel, a Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] on 17 degrees latitude north.

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🏴🏳‍⚧🏴‍☠Mar 8

@PhoenixSerenity

thank you for this thread.

I just finished the Jakarta Method and was thinking about that while reading your thread. the American government has always backed the most destructive regime in every country. the regime's ideology is secondary to how much the puppet in power will funnel resources/money back to the u.s. and/or causes problems for the soviets. that being said the ideology is always authoritarian.

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Ms. Que Banh Mar 8

@coolcalmcollected I'm glad you're reading up & learning more. I'm taking a break to get some things done offline. I'll add more to thread, later ✌️

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🏴🏳‍⚧🏴‍☠Mar 8

@PhoenixSerenity

I had learned about Vietnam in high school, incidentally I did a report on the Củ Chi tunnels. Of course, this was from an American education perspective in 1986. I was very impressed with how the Vietnamese dealt with an occupation and their level of determination. Now, I'm older and I understand the psychology of resistance. The u.s. government's inability to learn any lessons is going to be the end of this country. nothing lasts forever.

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Ms. Que Banh

@coolcalmcollected I really appreciate anyone/everyone who is interested in knowing/learning the truth from survivors of US terrorism invasions across the Global South. Our experiences are really raw, atrocious & vastly different than what almost all Global North folks are taught/told about.

I've had bigots who support genocide on Palestine & support US warmongers literally tell me that US should have bombed us more & should kill people like my parents so they couldn't give birth to someone like me. They call me a terrorist for speaking truths about our lived experiences under foreign invasion war. They say that's why US/Israel needs to kill the kids because if they don't - we get to grow up. They want to kill kids so they can't grow up like me & tell the truth to the whole world.

That is the kind of sickass fucking mindsets that I encounter for speaking out, trying to educate & trying to stop more warmongering madness. I am not going to shut up because of bullying bigots who can't handle the truth. I'm growing even tougher skin.